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After 11 years, we are about to enter the last month of your Bushfire CRC. It has been an incredible journey since 2003.

For me, what has stood out the most, notwithstanding the ground breaking research, is the culture change the industry has undertaken throughout this period. At the heart of this has been the close partnership between the Bushfire CRC and AFAC. The...

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Students from all over Australia and New Zealand will have the chance to investigate key issues for fire and
land management agencies as part of the Bushfire CRC’s latest postgraduate scholarship program.

Residents in areas affected by the Black Saturday fires are being asked to contribute to a long term study
on how communities deal with bushfires.
The Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre and RMIT University's Centre for Risk and Community Safety
are this month conducting a survey to better understand the range of experiences of the 2009 Victorian
bushfires.

High fire potential for 2009-10 southern bushfire season
Above normal fire potential is expected over most of the south-east of Australia in the coming months. For the first time, all of Victoria, south-eastern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, and the southern areas of South Australia are rated by fire and land management agencies as having such a high level of fire potential for the bushfire season.

Australia’s fire and land management agencies have committed to securing a national centre for long-term research into fire.
The commitment follows today’s announcement by Minister Kim Carr about the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program. The Bushfire CRC was unsuccessful in gaining funds in this round of CRC funding from the Australian Government. A consortium of 42 Australian fire and land management agencies, research partners and industry partners had put forward a bid for $50m to supplement the sector’s $100m own commitment to an eight year research program.

As Australian recovers from its worst ever fire season, a new study establishes for the first time the safe physical work standards that should be applied for the nation’s 220,000 volunteer firefighters.

As Australian recovers from its worst ever fire season, a new study establishes for the first time the
safe physical work standards that should be applied for the nation’s 220,000 volunteer firefighters.

This completed PhD research examined the role that warning fatigue plays in the risk perceptions, warning response and decision-making processes of people living in bushfire-prone areas. The study showed that warning fatigue reduced attention to bushfire warnings, changing the way those surveyed thought about their bushfire risk and affecting their response to warnings.

Use and sharing of the Bushfire CRC’s first ebook, Making a bushfire plan? Involve you kids! is growing, with a number of organisations distributing and promoting the ebook when talking about making bushfire plans with communities.

If you have noticed that Fire Notes now look a bit different, you would be correct. To assist you to organise, share and act, Fire Notes now have new features. These features will be included in all future editions, beginning with Fire Note 121.